Example sentences of "and [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colour the remaining fondant a pale cream colour ( use a tiny amount of diluted yellow food colouring ) and knead in a tiny amount of brown until almost mixed in but still a bit ‘ muddy ’ . |
| 2 | Person 2 would certainly not pay the higher price necessary to induce a competitive supplier to expand production beyond the output Q. Person 2 is thus a free-rider enjoying person 1 's purchase Q. And the total quantity privately produced and consumed in a competitive market lies below the socially efficient quantity Q * ; |
| 3 | Her mother fastening Melanie 's coat snugly at the neck and tucking in a scarf . |
| 4 | The total student population of 90 000 helps greatly to preserve an element of life and change in a city where one quarter of the population is over 66 . |
| 5 | or if we 're stuck get our heads together and drag in a few extra bodies |
| 6 | In accordance with the procedures governing Roger Hall 's comedy , they do so at regularly-spaced intervals , each entering with a gasp and clad in a ridiculous profusion of scarves , hats and rainwear , so that his droll point about the awfulness of the country 's climate can be adequately appreciated . |
| 7 | Scrawny , like most wizards , and clad in a dark red robe on which a few mystic sigils were embroidered in tarnished sequins . |
| 8 | Ice crystallizes out and accumulates in a surface layer which thickens and consolidates ; on calm nights with air temperatures well below freezing point a layer 20 cm deep may form overnight and be firm enough to take the weight of a man by morning . |
| 9 | They may seem inexpensive , but a will is a legal document and should be drawn up carefully and signed and witnessed in a particular way . |
| 10 | Total DNA was extracted from white pupae ( 100 of Trichogramma spp. and 5 of Muscidifurax ) after these were surface-sterilized with 70% ethanol , thoroughly washed with sterile water and homogenized in a Mini-Bead beater ( Biospec ) . |
| 11 | The model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) inputs : information inputs about the alternative products or services available to the interested individual/ potential customer will include the facts about those products ( brands available , product specification , quality , price etc ) . |
| 12 | One of the best known models was constructed by J. Sheth , and this model is described and explained in a simplified form , thus : i ) Information sources : a variety of information sources will be available , ( some of which have already been discussed in detail in this and the previous chapter ) . |
| 13 | Two or three lounge chairs borrowed from the staff room and arranged in a neutral corner of the classroom in an informal way for the interviews provides a much more relaxed atmosphere for an exchange of views and information . |
| 14 | The simple molecules from which the DNA is mainly built are of only four kinds , but they are grouped in trios and arranged in a particular and significant order on the immensely long DNA molecule . |
| 15 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk comprising scales completely or partially covered with a coat of granules sometimes also covering the radial , adoral and oral shields ; the teeth are papilla-form and arranged in a single series ; the second oral tentacle pore opens within the mouth slit ; the adoral shields are usually long and flared distally ; the oral shields are small , triangular or arrow shaped ; the arms are long , often flat and wide , tapering slowly to the end of the arm ; the dorsal and ventral arm plates are large and successive ones may be contiguous ; the tentacle pores are variable in size , sometimes enlarged , armed with one to several scales . |
| 16 | Collections of small objects should always be gathered together and arranged in a group rather than being thinly spread around the house . |
| 17 | When this happened , however , even the traditional features became more stereotyped because choreographers used only those which the audience could easily recognise and which were commonly seen and heard in a particular country . |
| 18 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 19 | Keith has his good side — he laughs a lot and plays in a limited way with a toy garage , cars and some Lego . |
| 20 | Here some of the younger women had thrown down their tools and gathered in a big circle , singing and dancing , while older women and children watched from the sidelines , shouting encouragement . |
| 21 | Gradually , almost stealthily , all the brothers had crept out of their stalls , and gathered in a circle about this altar and the group debating at its foot . |
| 22 | Scrambling to their feet , they stumbled to safety , back to where their comrades had left their vehicles and gathered in a group , staring grim-faced at the roaring inferno . |
| 23 | Probing , listening and reacting in a constructive , professional , nonjudgemental manner . |
| 24 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 25 | She had imprisoned her anger and hate in a part of her mind , as something unworthy which could be overcome . |
| 26 | Various suggestions were made , and the final plan was that Patsy , her husband and their two little boys should come and stay in a hotel in our village for the weekend . |
| 27 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 28 | Every year some of the Culler coats ladies dress up in lifeboat gear , and sit in a row as though they are pulling a lifeboat . |
| 29 | I order a vodka and orange and sit in a corner beneath peeling mauve and silver flock wallpaper . |
| 30 | You need a certain kind of front to breeze in from an alternative reality in the back of a time-travelling Volvo and sit in a Presley City bar , with a two-headed nipper on your lap , complaining to a private dick from the twenty-fifth century that you do n't have time for nonsense . |